It is sad to say that the killing of Walter Scott by Officer Slager is all too familiar. Every time we turn around there is a black man, black woman, black little girl, or a black little boy that is being gunned down by those who are supposed to protect us. I read somewhere online that in the past five years there have been two hundred police shootings in the state of South Carolina, seventy of them resulted in deaths, and none of the officers were found guilty. We must stop the violence of our people, especially by those who are supposed to protect and save us. We have to stop sitting and waiting on decisions, and go demand them ourselves. It is necessary that we keep our young black men and women out of the streets and prison systems and …show more content…
We can claim that we are outraged and upset, but if we nothing, we just look like mad lazy black people. To me outraged is when you no longer can take anymore, and I just do not see that here on campus. Those who are outraged were at the rally, they made posters, they joined in on the march, they follow the story, they make sure the story is well heard, and they are willing to help and support our community to ensure this does not happen again. We can all claim that we are outraged, but our actions must match. I feel as if police are killing our future doctors, lawyers, and educators, and they do not even know it. As we watch videos of young black men being gunned down in class tears always come to my eyes. Tears come to my eyes because I know that I have a brother, stepfather, and uncles who will one day have an encounter with the police. Those who have died to police brutality are too my brothers and sisters, and so are other young black men and women, and it saddens me that they are dying due to black on black crime or due to police brutality. Just as I would go crazy if it was someone I knew, I am going crazy for Walter Scott, Trayvon Martin, and others who have suffered due to police brutality. Just as my heart would ache if it were my brother or uncle, my heart aches for Walter Scott because he did not deserve that. Without body cameras or a brave eyewitness such as …show more content…
All police officers should be required to wear a body camera and a microphone that should be turned on at all times. These body cameras and microphones would eliminate lies told by police officers, and would create a true picture of the crimes. Court systems should not just provide any public defender to those who cannot afford a lawyer. Social status should not interrupt the due process of law. Public defenders should be trained to be adequate lawyers and provide adequate service to their clients. As Muhiyidin D 'Baha stated, we need a citizens’ review board that has subpoena power, so as a community we can monitor officers and review their actions to prevent events such as the death of Walter Scott from happening. The biggest thing that should occur is trust should be restored with our community and officer. Somehow we have to make sure that officers respect our communities and our people, and in return we must trust them to protect. We have to erase the idea of officers fearing black men because of the color of their skin, and we have to not fear officers due to other officer killings. There has to be some balance and understanding between officers and communities, where they trust us and in return, we trust them. Finally, we should honor and protect the fourteenth amendment, which states equal protection. Obviously, we do not have
We must take actions to reform police behavior! The problem is not the police nor the people of the United States, but the Federal Government system in which we all have to abide by. In order for a police reform to be implemented, the system has to be fixed and reconstructed. The people of the United States want to feel protected by the police, but on the other hand, they receive limited training on how to effectively interact with the people in the community they serve. Police officers are ordained by the power of the government. Police reform should start by giving proper training to new recruits and veterans, enforcing community policing and police accountability.
Is people going to forget what happen in Ferguson? How about George Zimmerman being proven not guilty? Or that Eric Garner was screaming “ I can’t breathe” before his death? There are lists of African Americans all over the world who were not given the justice that they deserved. In todays, news African Americans are being treated unfairly compared to any other demographic groups. America is the greatest country in the world, but it is difficult to believe that being in the 21st century racism still does exist. For instance, when it was time to remove the confederate flag, some demographic groups had a hard time letting go. People who argue that “blue lives matter,” which states that police are justified when using force and being unfair. These reasons are not justifiable enough to kill someone. Black Lives Matter alleges that police target and use
How is it Trayvon Martin and Mike brown fault they have to watch their back because their skin color don’t match the police skin color. They are here to protect us not kill us when we call 911 we want them to come with care and help us not bring attitude just because we are black. Primary reasons have to start with the whites throwing stones at Williams while he was swimming away to defend his self but yet they want to take advantage anyway. What happened in 1919 is still happening 2015 it’s a repeated cycle that’s ridiculous that we are still having riots because of racial discrimination. Primary reason is all start with the group of whites stoned Williams at the beach that what kick of the Chicago Race Riot of
First of all, I do not side with Charles Blow in his article, “The Flag Is Drenched With Our Blood,” because of how biased his article was. Although Blow presented numerous amounts of evidence of how America has abused African Americans, the author did not present any hard hitting evidence from the 21st century. It is common knowledge that blacks were abused in the past and the author basically just gave his audience a big recap of what we did, not how we changed and have improved. Nonetheless, I do believe that the killings of blacks by cops and people killing cops is atrocious and fair political action should be taken to meet this social issue. On the other political spectrum, Heather Mac Donald presented some current evidence that does
Freddie Grey, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, John Crawford, Eric Gardner, Jordan Baker.These are just some of the many, many African American people that were killed by the police, all unarmed, all mistreated by the police, all shot and killed, without a crime.. Every twenty-eight hours a life is lost. There are hundreds of innocent lives that are being taken away from their families. Police officers, who are meant to protect and serve, are instead killing and abusing civilians. These outrageous crimes would be avoided through accountability of the police, use of body cameras at all times, and the use of social media.
How, besides protesting, can we truly make sure that there will be no more black people being killed, beaten or tortured by police officers? And how can we promote justice and equality in the law enforcement more often? Step 1. Body cameras on every officer will show a huge decrease in police brutality. Body cameras are not going to make everything stop but it will definitely help instill some fear in those who believe they are invisible and can do whatever they want. Step 2. Establishing a "use of force" policy. Letting police officers know that they have boundaries and failure to do so will result in extermination will also help decrease police brutality cases. Step 3. Training police to be kind and not just scripted. Training police to actually become a member of the community and not just a member of the local police
The duty of a police officer is to protect the people with the laws and enforce them, not hurt the people. For all the African American women and men that have been killed by a police officer should be brought to justice. However, this is not the solution to the problem of police brutality in America. The solution to police brutality is the proper training and certification of police officers, so they understand how to handle various situations without using lethal weapons. For instance, Moore states that “extensive training for several weeks in patrol and observation, narcotics activities and community relations” (Moore, 2010) will lead to the solution of police brutality. Also, in order to dissolve the police brutality in America, America must recognize race as more than just one complexion and accept that people of color shouldn’t be dehumanized, but equal to their
Police brutality among all races needs to stop. Movements like Black Lives Matter focus in on only one race; however police brutality happens among all ethnic groups. Police brutality can sometimes shut out people who are not of the African American race. If more people supported the all lives matter movement, this could truly bring the discussion of police brutality to the table. It can be more difficult to do this when we focus on just one community of individuals. The only way to fix the downside that we face is requiring all police officers in the United States to wear body cameras. This solution would create less he said she said and more facts in situations where people are killed by police officers no matter what color they are.
The New York Police Department has a mission to "preserve peace, reduce fear, maintain order," and protect its civilians in their communities (NYPD, 2016). On the contrary, civilians do not see the police officers as individuals who are there to protect them because they do not trust the police officers or the justice system. In the past few decades, police officers have not been held accountable for their actions in a few incidents where a few unarmed young black males were killed by the police. Communities responded to this issue with the Black Lives Matter movement with protests nationwide to show support for the unarmed young black men who were killed by police. In response to the aggressive policing, methods of using body cameras and detailed incident reporting ...
Whether kneeling or sitting, professional athletes using their national fame to protest for social justice is a very good idea. Collin Kaepernick has created the most peaceful protest concerning police brutality. People dislike what he’s standing up for so they’re saying they don’t like that he’s sitting/kneeling when in reality, that’s not it. His protest was about police shootings not just police shooting african-americans or black lives matter. People just assume that because he’s biracial.
“I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe.” Those were the last words Eric Garner ever said. He was killed, no murdered, by police four years ago. Now, it’s 2018 and 175 people have been murdered by police. One hundred seventy-eight people, faceless to the public, but they all had a family, somebody who cared about them. That’s only 2018, what about the almost 1,000 people killed last year, or the 1,000 in 2016 and the 1,000 in 2015? Police are killing, but more people are getting upset over the fact that somebody had an abortion than the fact people are getting killed everyday by somebody who is supposed to protect them. I believe we need to get the police to change, they are killing people, everyday, more and more people are getting added to that list, they are teaching the children that this type of behavior is okay, and
Police brutality and racism are an ongoing problem in our country. It goes back hundreds of years with no sign of it stopping. Police officers have been abusing their power since they have been around. Abuse against African American males by white police officers is getting out of hand. Most officers face no punishment at, and all there is a special code that they follow. Officers follow The “Blue Code of Silence”, which is a code that means they look out for one another. Even with video recording devices, the news, and social media, these events still go on. African Americans take most of the abuse and it looks like there is no end to this. This is a reflection on our society, and it makes us look ignorant to what is going on around us.
Police officers are forced to make decisions every day from deciding whether or not to pull someone over for speeding to whether or not to use lethal force on a threat. My opinion on the officers in shootings is that these officers may take more shots than needed or miss a lot of their shots but it’s going to happen. Most of the police forces do not record such stats and I think they should. However people don’t know how stressful it must be to be in a situation where a police officer is in danger and must protect himself and others from a threat and it is his duty to make these shoot don’t shoot decisions. I also think that police officers should be more cautious and make sure they do every thing right.
Another solution I can compose is, police officers should talk more about these issues in schools. Me living in Chicago growing up in a wealthy neighborhood and living with both of my parents, some people are not lucky as me. They don’t have that proper love and care for them like my parents have for me. A lot of African Americans need to feel that love like they are special and people do care, and who are the better people to do it then police officers. I feel that it would be great if police officers interact with children to gain that trust they need back. If they come to schools and talk about the problems they face and how deeply sorry they are that, some officers are making a bad reputation for all officers and that’s not they stand for will be a great asset to the black community so we can at least feel safe every time we see an officer we need that proper guidance and love from others Police should protest in black communities with black citizens to show sincerity. Police officer have a campaign with sign held up saying “Black Lives Matter”, Police Live Matter”, and “All Lives Matter” this will show society that police officers do care and will result in a rallying cry for police officers that want to see an end to racial profiling and police
The phrase justice for all seems like it doesn’t pertain to everyone. I have seen so many cases of police brutality where they have actually killed someone for no reason and got off with the crime. In my opinion murder is murder and regardless of the position you have, if you do the crime you should have to do the time. Just because you wear a badge, doesn’t mean that you have the right to kill someone. I feel as if its time for the government to start enforcing more laws for police officers and it time for officers to have to have more harsh consequences for their actions.